On the Farm - The Daily Life (Day #2)

     1/5/12- Dad kicked in the big machines today to warm up the diesel engines, because in deep winter freezes they need it, so he says.  It helps the batteries and other "thingamagigs" involved.  I really think, just like a kid, he had to get on them and "play".  So, he got the dozer going after he finished w/the JD (I still need to find out what that stands for), and headed towards a dead row of old Honey Locust trees.  I forgot to show them to you when you were here, but they are covered w/thorns some of them as long as a finger, very thick and sharp.  I have often told Dad, that it is so dangerous because some animal (i.e. a deer who is taller than most short humans like me) could get their eyes gouged or injured.  I guess that is good old Mother Nature talking to me and an inner sense to stay away.  

     So, getting back to where I first began; I saw him push trees down and decided to keep an eye on him.  About an hour later, I was looking out the kitchen nook picture window, you know what a great view it has of the back, and I saw hm starting the John Deere (I figured it out now, JD = John Deere duh!!!) up.  Like usual he didn't ask me for help and I ran outside and cut him off as he rounded the front and he had to stop.  He 'fesed up that the dozer was stuck and was going to have to pull it out, because the root of one of the big locust had been too deep and created a wet hole where the dozer got stuck since the snow and ice just sit on the dense tree row.  

      The problem he had is that it would take two people; one to drive the dozer out and the other to pull w/the JD.  I've driven the smaller JD lots of times even by myself, but not this bigger newer one.  But, what the heck, ain't I a "country farm girl" now; I told him I would pull.  He hooked the big chain up and I only jerked it a little too hard once and he had to reconnect (the chain), but we got it out and just in time since I had to go to Adoration at St Joe Ost in less than an hour.  TaDaaaaa!!!!  I saved the day, Just got to love it.

      You know I always nag at him when we go to auctions and he buys all that "farm stuff" and I say, "Don't you have some of them already?"  He always says, you can never have enough of them, you never know when you'll need them!!!  Hence, the big chain that he had to use to pull the dozer out, you saw how big it is.  Later.....